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SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH. SHAMOKIN, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1939 PAGE EIGHT Screen and Stage Personalities Current Attractions at Local Theatres lljL colorful federal law enforcement The Kid Himself Stars of 'Pysrmalion' exhaustible supply of stories. He's the life of every sound stage. But MUKiml Freddie Bartholomew, who was thrilled not so many years ago when his aunt let him don trousers instead of knee-pants, was resplendent today In his first Tuxedo, It was a present on hia 15th birthday from his aunt and guar- dlan Miss MyWcent Harpo, the silent one of the Marx Brothers, was legally the father of a 2-year-old boy today. The movie madcap and his wife, Alva, received from Juvenile Judge W.

Turney Fox the final adoption papers for William Woolcott Marx. i LOTTERY PROPOSAL OPPOSED BY JAMES HARRISBURG, March 31 (U.R) Governor Arthur H. Jaaies was on record today as opposed to tha state-lottery method of raising sorely needed revenue to support governmental agencies next blenniunt; Asked whether he favored the Falkensteln bill listed for final House action next Monday night as means of collecting an estimated $35,000,000 a year from lotteries-conducted every six months, the governor said with emphasis: "I am not." James was not pressed for fur ther comment on the proposal of Representative Francis J. Falken Leslie Howard and Wendy HUler (above) appear ueorge Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" which opened today at the Victoria theatre. steln, Philadelphia.

The lottery bill gained second-4 reading approval in uie tiouse yes- terdav before the Legislature re-v James Cagney (above) plays the leading role in "The Oklahoma Kid," now showing at the Capitol theatre. Cagney has the toughest role of his career, and plays the part of a killer, bandit and lover. The picture is taken from the pages of early American history. cessed for the week-end. LOG CABIN INN Proudly Presents THE THREE BOYS TO ITE SPECIAL NOTICE In the future The Three Boys will appear at the Loc Cabin Inn EVERY FRI.

profits. The script he submitted to the studio was written by another scenarist, but Gould obtained the rights to it some years before, he claimed. To Hollywood, used to anything, a green beaird is no novelty. Actor Frank Morgan donned one and walked two blocks on a bet with Bert Lahr, another actor, that he wouldn't arouse a commotion. No one recognized him.

Hardly anyone stared. Morgan won a new hat. Party Tonight at BILL WITMORE'S Every Tuesday Friday Nights Bunker HiU BasebaU Club fooo SCREEN CHATS By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD Stardom has been offered to Waiter Brennan and rejpcted What with two Aca demy Awaras ior supporting roles, and being always husv. the man- with-wiany faces Wl. 4 is doing all right, thank you.

No star ever lasted as long as Brennan expects to last, Just under 40, he should be able to play old-man roles until he himself is old. Stars don't work so regularly, either. And besides, if he went in i for top billings the studios might try to type him in one character "so the public could recognize him. As things are, he scarcely knows i himself. I seldom can spot Brennan when made up for a new role.

Right now he's in "Stanley and Living- stone" as a hard-bitten Indian "4 fighter who accompanies Stanley to Africa. His hair is a mane and he wears a soup-strainer mustache and week's growth of beard. For a I Change, he's also wearing teeth, 'but the upper plate is a special one a gap in front. A whifl of mustard gas during the World War cost Brennan all ibis teeth, but the loss of them also vade his fortune, eventually. "It was 14 years ago that I first startled in the movies," he said, "but I wasn't able to convince casting of- flees that I could play old-man roles.

So one sjlay I went to a studio without my teeth and with a stub-: ble of beard. From then on I be- gan getting a few bits." 'V: FOUGHT HARD 1 FOR "BREAK" He had worked at anything he "could get extra jobs and as Slim flummerville's stand-in. Mornings evenings, he walked miles to carfare. The big break came tin 1935, in "Wedding Night." Ee "had a small part at first, but Sam Goldwyn watched one of the early I scenes and howled at Brennan's portrayal of a tough mug. They wrote a special role into the pic-" ture for him then, and Goldwyn gave him a contract which is still in force.

"I've only made four pic- tures for him," Brennan said, "but Bam'5 doing all right on the con- tract because I've been on loan constantly only off salary one week in the past four years." I A story so old that it's even shunned by press agents is the one the studio gatemen who fail to recognize celebrated players and refuse to admit them. This has happened to Brennan jnore times than to anybody else because without makeup he is just an ordinary-looking guy with a receding hairline. Only picture he ever made with his own face is "The Castles," not yet released. fAU the makeup I used was a little Jfo. 25, which is a light paint.

I put Jt on my ears to make 'em more and make me look a ittle more like a hick. "Not being known has a lot of advantages. I never have to sign autographs. Last week I went to polo game with Spencer Tracy. "They mobbed Tracy at the gate, 'but I Just stood there and nobody paid me the slightest attention." Brennan Is locally famed as a Versatile dialectician with an in Roast Buffalo Platters Tomorrow Night at the PAXINOS CAFE OPEN FOR BUSINESS DANCING EVERY Music by I YD MCGINN'S ORCHESTRA Beer Light Wine Liquor Light Lunches FAIRMOUNT HOTEL SUNBl'RY.

PA Sue Felker, Prop. 11 P. Harrison NOW THRU MON. agency. The hero ol' "Secret Service of the Air" and he will remain the central character of the series is the tall, good-looking, charming and intensely virile Ronald Reagan.

There is no doubt that he looks the part, and his sensational rise to prominence in scarcely more than a year of screen acting indicates that he will act it to the hilt. Don't miss Tex Bitter, singing westerner, and his horse White Flash, now appearing at the Majestic Theatre in "Sundown on the Prairie," an exciting saga of border smuggling. In this top-notoh thriller, Tex and his pal Ananias, while vacationing in Santa Fe, accidentally run into some suspicious characters who turn out to be a long sought-after gang of horse thieves. Notifying the nearest ranger headquarters, they are detailed by the government to round up the mob. HOLLYWOOD, March 31 (U.R) A special train bearing 200 stars, studio executives, and newspapermen was en route today to Dodge City, for one of the most elaborate ballyhoo stunts ever given a motion picture.

Warner Brothers is sending the trainload and several others from the East and South to the Kansas town for the world premiere Saturday night of the picture "Dodge City." Aboard the train was Errol Flynn, the star, who will be a week-end guest of a Dodge City miss who "bought" him for $25. Another girl had won the actor in a raffle but had to give him up because her kid brother had the measles. Olivia de Havilland, George Raft, Frank McHugh, Jane Wyman, Pris-cilla and Bosemary Lane, Wayne Morris, Jean Parker, Buck Jones, June Lang, Hoot Gibson and Con- RIT7 THEATRE TREVORTON TODAY TOMORROW FLORENCE RICE and ALAN MARSHALL in TOUR GIRLS IN WHITE1 Matinee Tomorrow 1:30 THE NEW MODERN MAJESTIC Mat I0c-20c i Eve 10c-30c TODAY TOMORROW! with RONALD REAGAN JOHN LITEL IU RHODES Junes Stephenson Eddie Fey, Jr. Also Affirm SUNDOWN PRAIRIE" mi Mm wmjt rum AND ON THE STAGE RICHARD E. SYLVERS Foremost Mind-Reader Crusoe in a "SllfU to hit great-JllfcJ tt adventure TTni In irch of air uImUJ tpiM and thrilltl VWi, the biggest laugh he ever got for himself was shortly before "Come and Get It" went into production at United Artists, He went to the studio to talk about the part for which he had been cast, and met the technical adviser and spoke to him in Swedish dialect.

The fellow immediately offered Brennan the job of coaching Walter Brennan in the dialect of a Swedish lumberjack. He also gets a wallop out of the way his daughter and two sons rib him about his picture work. One day he promised them tickets for the big premiere of "Kentucky" (in which he won his second Academy Award). They said never mind, that they'd probably see the film if it got around to their neighborhood theatre on a good double bill. Victoria Cab Driver Now An Actor George Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion' to Furnish Entertainment Here A London taxicab driver unexpectedly became a film actor after a 15-mile dash with a fare to the studio where work was in progress on "Pygmalion," filmization of the famed Bernard Shaw stage hit, which opened today at the Victoria Theatre with Leslie Howard in the starring role.

For 18 years A. T. Wenmun has been a taxicab driver. While he was waiting at a London taxi stand, a young man suddenly rushed up and asked to be driven full speed to the studios. Forty-five minutes later the cab arrived.

Having received his fare, Wenman was about to return to London when an assistant working on the film version cf "Pygmalion" spotted him. A London taxicab was required for a scene they were filming. Would Wenman provide the cab and his own services? The taxicab driver was only too delighted. "It was the first time I had been in a film studio, and a pretty exciting day it was for me I can tell he said afterwards. "Little did I dream that my trip would result in my becoming a film actor! "But my greatest thrill was when the scene in which I appeared showed me driving my favorite film star Leslie Howard.

Mr. Howard was very kind. Not only did he give me his autograph for my little niece, but a fill of tobacco f'r my pipe which I had to smoke in the film." Capitol College 'Toughies' Four of Five Tough Guys In 'Oklahoma Kid' College Graduates Four of the five tough guys who compose a gang of killers in "The Oklahoma Kid," the picture now playing at the Capitol Theatre, are college graduates. Humphrey Bogart, who leads the outlaw gang against James Cagney, the hero of the frontier melodrama, attended Andover Academy and Attention! A Big Get-Together Party Tonight Starts 8:15 ST. FRANCIS HALL Cor.

Race Franklin Sts. by Golden Jubilee Committee SHAMOKIN'S FINEST GRILL Gfaezzi'ol 108 S. Market St. Dine and Dance with Joey Will and His till! Orchestra Hard Shells Shrimps A Steamed Clams Deviled Crabs vwwwwwC MISS N'ssv i JPif gS l't'( Uproariously swell is this brilliant Bernard Shaw comedy of a woman-proof bachelor who ignored girls who thrtvr themselves at him but wai remarkably easy to be had when he met a beauty who told him to go Jump into the lake I stance Bennett were among other players aboard. Gwynne Pickford, 21-year-old niece of Mary Pickford, reported to police today the theft of $12,000 worth of furs and jewelry from her home.

She and her servant were away. Neighbors noticed the front door smashed open and called police. Miss Pickford said eight fur coats, a sil ver fox neckpiece and jewelry were missing. Harry Gould, a writer, charged in a lawsuit today that the film hit "Gunga Dinn" was pirated from a script he submitted to a studio in 1934. Gould sued RKO Studio and others, asking a federal court Injunction against further showing of the picture and an accounting of its Hot S-Pot III hi niV.iiYJwriuvj III1 of the swellest pio lures ever, made Damon Runyon 1, jVUL it 1001 frWf VNX 1 V-Z Kf JUM fil Ull I "Worth IlUJAAIUfOU Majestic Air and Western Films 'Secret Service of the Air' Begins New Series of Western Pictures "Secret Service of the Air," now showing at the Majestic Theatre, is heralded as the first out-rider of a veritable cavalcade of thrilling and absorbing screen entertainment, for it is the first in a series of pictures being produced by Warner Brothers which will deal with the exploits of the men of the United States Secret Service.

All of the films in the series will be based on material compiled by W. H. Moran, former chief of the secret service, and therefore will be but thinly disguised dramatizations of actual adventures experienced by the members of this famous and MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT LONE PINE INN 1 mile west of Trevorton and Enjoy Another PIG ROAST Everybody Welcome Madeline Lenig, Prop. CAPITOL NOW thru m. 'THE Direct1 by Uoyd Bonn WAINM 1101 wltk HUMPHREY BOGART ROSEMARY LANE DONALD CRISP ALSO Walt Disney's "SOCIETY DOG SHOW" Trinity College.

His henchmen include Trevor Bardette, who holds a S. from University of Oregon and a Master of Science degree from Northwestern Lew Harvey, from Christian Brothers College in Portland, and Ward Bond, former all-western football tackle at the University of Southern California, Cagney, who outwits them when they gun for him, and who also plays an outlaw (but one with a good heart) in the picture, also attended college. He went to Columbia University until the death of his father ended his exposure to higher learning. The technical expert in the pic ture, who guided all five actors through their ambushes, traps, Jail breaks and holdups, was also a college graduate, but with a post graduate degree that clearly sets him up above the others. The technical expert was Al Jen nings, now 75 years of age, who earned the right to eighteen gun notches during his hectic days as a gunnghter and train robber in old Oklahoma territory.

Jennings won his college degree in the law school at University of West Vir ginia, but his post-graduate work was represented by Ave years in a federal prison in Ohio, following his conviction on charges of robbing a cross-country train. Indoor Clambake and Corn on the Cob Every Friday Night HOTEL BUDAPEST Kulpmont Muiic by Juny His Rhythm Band Everybody Welcome John Zupko, Prop. FAGOTS TONIGHT at Joe Kane's Green Derby Along Shamokin-Sunbury Hwy. V. F.

W. CARD PARTY All Games Played TONIGHT V. F. W. Rooms Refreshments Served Admission, 25c DANCE TONIGHT Salvadore DeVito's Cafe 704 North Shamokin Street MAGASKIE'S ORCHESTRA Choice Beers, Wines and Liquors You Are a Stranger Here But Once! Pleasure Park ELYSBLRG FRIDAY NIGHT BIG FLOOR SHOW AND DANCE JERRY MONTANA AND HER ROCKY MOUNTAIN GANG First Show Starts at 8:00 o'clock Somethinc New In Entertainment YOU'RE WELCOME, EVERYONE! MICKEY MOUSE HJlGHT FALLS, AND IN TH CANNIBAL VILLkSE THE NATIVES prepare a sumptuous feast! 1 ViwYwk Critics lane jj v' ttAmooitte'liBEest" A 'PygnuUon' mionlllcintl" -1 Af.y.HeriM Tribune -Agtwdshowi" N.Y.nmt, yL "DropsytiythtaMndnishlowm" I A seeing iwlcel" A 4' "PontmlMllI" ifp WjL SWEEPSTAKE 50 TARGETS $3 ENTRANCE Stake Divided Into 3 Classes AMATEURS WELCOME SHAMOKIN ROD GUN CLUB SUNDAY, APRIL 212:30 VUIIaJVAJ Added Sat.

Matinee Your new favorite fighting pals ARTHUR JARRET in "TRIGGER PALS" with LEE POWELL AL ST. JOHN (Lone Ranger) By Walt Disney DO NOT The HEW PARTY P. M. at PULASKI HIGH SCHOOL Oneida and Sheridan Streets Admission 35c A.